haul in one's horns

haul in one's horns

• • [口语]
  • 有所收敛，不再狂妄；软下来；退缩
  • 慎重一些，减少活动；缩减开支

• alkaline storage battery
• limby
• pipelining
• saprobe
• Io
• barring
• ideaphobia
• Luxemburg, Rosa
• finespun
• put/set the cat among the pigeons
• influence sweep
• cusp
• convergence factor
• chileans
• to one's own cheek
• ARIBA
• New heartland
• reverberates
• a train of thought
• bioregional
• soil-water belt
• to the north of
• occipita
• lose (或 miss) one's footing
• dominating series
• vi.
• ethyl group
• holdable
• infestant
• parcel out
• Ramsden circle
• b's或Bs
• kissing diseases
• punctuated evolution
• limelighters
• mackerel scads
• spokeshaves
• trans-American
• succession of crops
• technologically
• barbecue sauces
• amount to much
• tobaccoed
• click track
• megatanker
• daddied
• heckelphone
• sympathetic contact
• send someone about his business
• Pygmalion
• eyeball-to-eyeball
• Spanish Inquisition
• give sb the elbow
• oliva
• calchas
• stock-stills
• zoologists
• renegotiates
• cretinized
• Kutenai, Kutenay或-nays
• vendibilities
• shoeleather
• quadrantal deviation
• death ray weapon
• belabour the point
• termites
• bum-rush
• weasel words
• optated
• knuckle under (to sb/sth)
• wag-wit
• redemptively
• Breda's disease
• space coordinates
• St Ex.
• get someone's back up
• ford
• snap
• Betti number
• gazoomph
• langshan
• poke around (sth)
• hygrophyte
• s.l
• notebook computers
• ammonolyzed
• icterus gravis neonatorum
• worm your way out of (doing) sth
• privateering
• smell-feasts
• be of the opinion that
• pharmacognostics
• bell ringer
• regularizes
• mowest
• emanometer
• cajon
• draught beer
• WWW
• acting manager / head teacher / director etc